Pinky (1949)

Ethel Waters: Dicey Johnson

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• Dicey Johnson : Pinky, I worked long and hard to give you an education. And if they done educated the very heart out'ch you, everything I've worked and slaved for is wrong.

• Jake Walters : Well, there's work and then there's work. My biggest work, I do it with my brain.

  Dicey Johnson : Liable to get top-heavy overworking that brain, eh, Jake?

  Jake Walters : That's the way to rise up in the world. No more being the skim milk for Jake Walters. He's gonna be the cream on top.

  Dicey Johnson : Cream gotta be cream first before it rise.